Abstract: Alessandro Acquisti (“ The Effect of Online Privacy Information on Purchasing Behavior: An Experimental Study ”) received his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in 2003. He is an Associate Professor at the Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University. His work on the economics and behavioral economics of privacy has been published in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Marketing Science, Marketing Letters, and IEEE Security & Privacy and has been featured in outlets such as NPR, NBC, MSNBC.com, Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and New Scientist. Anitesh Barua (“ Contracting Efficiency and New Firm Survival in Markets Enabled by Information Technology ”) is the Mr. and Mrs. William F. Wright, Jr. Centennial Professor for Management of Innovative Technology and Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. His research has appeared in several refereed journals and conference proceedings, such as MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Productivity Analysis, and Sloan Management Review. Martin Bichler (“ An Experimental Comparison of Linear and Nonlinear Price Combinatorial Auctions ”) received his Ph.D., as well as his Habilitation, from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. He has worked as a research fellow at University of California, Berkeley and as a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. Since 2003, he has been Full Professor at the Department of Informatics of the TU München and a faculty member at the TU München School of Management. Lorrie Cranor (“ The Effect of Online Privacy Information on Purchasing Behavior: An Experimental Study ”) received her DSc. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1996 and is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, where she is director of the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS). She has authored more than 80 research papers about online privacy, phishing and semantic attacks, spam, electronic voting, anonymous publishing, usable access control, and other topics. She was previously a researcher at AT & T Labs Research. Sanjeev Dewan (“ Information Technology and Firm Boundaries: Impact on Firm Risk and Return Performance ”) is an associate professor in information systems at the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine. His research and teaching interests are in the economics of information technology and in electronic commerce. He has served as a senior editor at Information Systems Research and as an associate editor at Management Science. Professor Dewan received his Ph.D. in business administration from the Simon School at the University of Rochester. Serge Egelman (“ The Effect of Online Privacy Information on Purchasing Behavior: An Experimental Study ”) is a postdoctoral researcher at Brown University. He received a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science in 2009. His research focuses on helping end users make better privacy and security decisions when using computers. He has consulted Microsoft on creating more intuitive security interfaces, and his research has received publicity from such news outlets as the BBC, Scientific American, NPR, The Guardian, PC World, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Anindya Ghose (“ Using Transaction Prices to Re-Examine Price Dispersion in Electronic Markets ”) is an assistant professor of IOMS at New York University. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include the economics of electronic commerce, user-generated content, and search engine advertising. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2007 for his research on estimating the value of user-generated content in electronic markets and its monetization through online advertising. He is also a winner of the 2007 Microsoft Virtual Earth and the 2006 Microsoft Live Labs awards for his work on examining the economic value of textual user-generated content on the Internet. He has published in Management Science, Information Systems Research, Statistical Science, Marketing Letters, MIS Quarterly, JEMS, and JMIS. He serves as an Associate Editor of Management Science and ISR. Bin Gu (“ Environmental Uncertainty and IT Infrastructure Governance: A Curvilinear Relationship ”) is an Assistant Professor at the Red McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on electronic commerce, online social networks, and strategic management of information technology in enterprise settings. His work has appeared in several journals, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Retailing, and Decision Support Systems. Kemal Guler (“ An Experimental Comparison of Linear and Nonlinear Price Combinatorial Auctions ”) is a principal scientist at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California. He received his Ph. D. in game theory from Caltech, his MSc. in economics from Baylor University, and his B.Sc. in economics from Bogazici University. He was previously an assistant professor of economics at the University of Houston. His research interests include game theory, microeconomics, and econometrics with a primary focus on modeling business decision problems from an empirical mechanism design perspective. Alok Gupta (“ An Analysis of Incentives for Network Infrastructure Investment Under Different Pricing Strategies ”) holds the Curtis L. Carlson School-wide Chair in Information Management at Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. in MSIS from UT, Austin in 1996. He has published more than 40 articles in top management science, operations research, economics, and IS journals. He received the prestigious NSF CAREER award in 2001 for his research on online auctions. He serves on the editorial boards of Management Science, ISR, JMIS, and DSS. J.J. Po-An Hsieh (“ Addressing Digital Inequality for the Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Through Government Initiatives: Forms of Capital That Affect ICT Utilization ”) is currently an assistant professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his Ph.D. from Georgia State University and an MBA degree from the University of Maryland. His research focuses on the areas of digital divide and IS implementation, usage, and success. He has published in MIS Quarterly, European Journal of Information Systems, and others, and he has presented papers at the International Conference on Information Systems and the Academy of Management Annual Conference. Varghese S. Jacob (“ Vendor and Client Interaction for Requirements Assessment in Software Development: Implications for Feedback Process ”) is Senior Associate Dean and Ashbel Smith Professor of Management Information Systems in the School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). His research interests are in data quality, electronic commerce, software engineering, decision support systems, and artificial intelligence applications. His research papers have been published in the premier journals in the field. He is coeditor-in-chief of the journal Information Technology and Management and also serves on the editorial boards of several other journals. Rajiv Jayanth (“ Vendor and Client Interaction for Requirements Assessment in Software Development: Implications for Feedback Process ”) is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Dallas. He received his M.S. in computer science and M.S. in telecom engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas. His professional experience includes developing and testing software for telecom networks. His research interest lies in the intersection of economics, information systems, and psychology. He has presented his work at several conferences and workshops in North America, Europe, and Asia. Monica Johar (“ Analyzing Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Networks Under Various Congestion Measures ”) is an assistant professor of MIS at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received a Ph.D. in management science with a concentration in MIS from University of Texas at Dallas in 2006. Her research interests include software development methodologies, content delivery systems, knowledge management, and Web personalization. She is a member of AIS and INFORMS. Her research has been published in IS journals such as Information Systems Research. Boris Jukic (“ An Analysis of Incentives for Network Infrastructure Investment Under Different Pricing Strategies ”) is an associate professor of operations and information systems at the School of Business at Clarkson University. In 1998, he received his Ph.D. in management science and information systems from University of Texas at Austin. His research has been published in various information systems, economics, and computer science journals, such as Computational Economics, Information Systems, DSS, M & SOM and IEEE Internet Computing. He can be reached via email at bjukic@clarkson.edu . Mark Keil (“ Addressing Digital Inequality for the Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Through Government Initiatives: Forms of Capital That Affect ICT Utilization ”) is the Board of Advisors Professor of Computer Information Systems at Georgia State University. His research focuses on IT project management, and he has published more than 70 journal articles in MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Journal of Management Information Systems, and many other journals. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Sciences, and Information Systems Journal. Huigang Liang (“ Punishment, Justice, and Compliance in Mandatory IT Settings ”) is an assistant professor at College of Business, East Carolina University. His research focuses on IT issues at both individual and organizational levels, including avoidance, compliance, assimilation, decision process, and healthcare informatics. His work has appeared in MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, International Journal of Medical Informatics, and Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, among others. He received his Ph.D. from Auburn University. Syam Menon (“ Analyzing Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Networks Under Various Congestion Measures ”) is an associate professor of information systems in the School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas. He received his Ph.D. in management science from University of Chicago in 1997. He is a member of INFORMS, IEEE, AIS, and ACM. His research interests include data privacy and Internet advertising, among others. He has published in various INFORMS, IEEE, and ACM journals. Vijay S. Mookerjee (“ Analyzing Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Networks Under Various Congestion Measures ”) holds a Ph.D. in management, with a major in MIS, from Purdue University. His current research interests include social networks, optimal software development methodologies, storage and cache management, content delivery systems, and the economic design of expert systems and machine learning systems. He has published in and has articles forthcoming in several archival information systems, computer science, and operations research journals. He serves (or has served on) on the editorial board of Management Science, Information Systems Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Operations Research, Decision Support Systems, Information Technology and Management, and Journal of Database Management. Alexander Pikovsky (“ An Experimental Comparison of Linear and Nonlinear Price Combinatorial Auctions ”) started his studies of mathematics in the Ukraine and finished them in 2002 at the TU München (Germany) with a master's degree in financial and economic mathematics. From 2003 to 2008 he was working as a researcher in the field of combinatorial auctions as the Chair of Internet-Based Information Systems (Informatics, TU München), where he got his doctorate degree (dr. rer. nat.). Since 2008, he has been working as a freelance software developer. Suresh Radhakrishnan (“ Vendor/Client Interaction for Requirements Assessment in Software Development: Implications for Feedback Process ”) is a professor of accounting and information management at the University of Texas at Dallas, Director of Research at the Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance and a Visiting Research Fellow at various Asian universities. His research papers have been published in leading academic journals in accounting, finance, and operations management. His work on organization capital and charitable giving has been covered by major newspapers and media and presented at forums such as the Microsoft CEO Summit and the SAP Global Congress. His research interests include valuation of intangible assets, performance evaluation, contracting, and impact of corporate governance. Arun Rai (“ Addressing Digital Inequality for the Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Through Government Initiatives: Forms of Capital That Affect ICT Utilization ”) is Regents' Professor and the Harkins Chair in Information Systems at the Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. His research has appeared in Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, European Journal of Operations Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, and other journals. He currently serves as a senior editor at Information Systems Research and as an associate editor at Journal of MIS. Gautam Ray (“ Environmental Uncertainty and IT Infrastructure Governance: A Curvilinear Relationship ”) is an Assistant Professor at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. His research interests are in the area of impact of IT on firm scope and structure and how IT does create value. His research has been published in ISR, Management Science, Marketing Science, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems and the Strategic Management Journal. He received his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 2000. Fei Ren (“ Information Technology and Firm Boundaries: Impact on Firm Risk and Return Performance ”) is an assistant professor in information systems at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, China. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in 2007. Her research interests are in the areas of the business value of information technology, IT and business strategy, and organizational and social impact of IT. Her research articles have appeared in journals and conferences such as Information Systems Research. Tobias Scheffel (“ An Experimental Comparison of Linear and Nonlinear Price Combinatorial Auctions ”) studied information systems at TU München, where he completed his undergraduate studies in 2005 and received his master of science degree in 2007. He has been working as a research assistant at the Chair of Internet-Based Information Systems (TU München) since then, currently completing his PhD. degree in Prof. Bichler's group. His research focuses on electronic markets—especially combinatorial auctions—as well as experimental economics and computer computational experiments. Dale O. Stahl (“ An Analysis of Incentives for Network Infrastructure Investment Under Different Pricing Strategies ”) is a Malcolm Forsman Centennial Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1982, he received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in Economics. He has published more than 60 articles in top economics journals in the areas of general equilibrium theory, dynamics and stability theory, game-theoretic approaches to price determination, and experimental game theory. He can be reached via email at stahl@eco.texas.edu . Anjana Susarla (“ Contracting Efficiency and New Firm Survival in Markets Enabled by Information Technology ”) is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management at the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the University of Washington at Seattle. She received her Ph.D. in information systems from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research has appeared in several refereed journals and conference proceedings, such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, IEEE Computer, and the International Conference on Information Systems. Janice Tsai (“ The Effect of Online Privacy Information on Purchasing Behavior: An Experimental Study ”) finished her Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009. Her research focuses on usable privacy and decision making. She also has a master's degree in library and information science from Rutgers University, where she was an Eagleton Fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. Her career goal is to help develop and guide technology policy. Her research has received publicity from such news outlets as the BBC News. Andrew B. Whinston (“ An Analysis of Incentives for Network Infrastructure Investment Under Different Pricing Strategies ”) received his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University and is currently Hugh Roy Cullen Professor of Information Systems, Economics, and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published more than 250 articles in top professional journals in management science, operations research, and economics and information systems. He is editor-in-chief of Decision Support Systems and Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce. He can be reached via email at abw@uts.cc.utexas.edu . Liansheng Wu (“ Punishment, Justice, and Compliance in Mandatory IT Settings ”) is professor and chair of the accounting department, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. His research interests include accounting standard setting, earnings management, corporate governance, and managerial accounting. His work has appeared in Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Banking and Finance, Applied Economics, and International Review of Economics and Finance. He serves on the editorial board of International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting and International Journal of Management Development. Ling Xue (“ Environmental Uncertainty and IT Infrastructure Governance: A Curvilinear Relationship ”) is an assistant professor at the Kania School of Management, University of Scranton. His research interests are in the areas of IT business value, IT governance, the impact of IT on firm structure, and IT security. He received his Ph.D. in management science and information systems from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. He has published in International Journal of Electronic Commerce. Yajiong Xue (“ Punishment, Justice, and Compliance in Mandatory IT Settings ”) is an assistant professor at East Carolina University. She received her Ph.D. from Auburn University. Her research has appeared in MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Medical Informatics, and others. Her research interests include the strategic management of information technology, IT governance, and healthcare information systems. She serves as an Associate Editor for Communications of the AIS. Yuliang Yao (“ Using Transaction Prices to Re-Examine Price Dispersion in Electronic Markets ”) is an assistant professor at College of Business and Economics of Lehigh University. His research interests are at the interdisciplinary fields of information systems and supply chain management, including business value of IT-enabled supply chains, economics of electronic commerce, and VMI, CPFR and CRM. His publications have appeared in Management Science, Decision Support Systems, Electronic Markets, and Supply Chain Management Review.